Vitalik Buterin (vitallik-eth)

I'm noticing lots of people with both the opinion "I don't think I could work under a boss" and "hierarchies are efficient". But there's a tension between these two. Efficiency properly understood isn't output per man-hour, it's output per unit unpleasantness. That follows from standard econ definitions of efficiency.

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Convex mindset be like: So you say that it's HEALTHY to drink WATER? Well, if you take that idea to its LOGICAL CONCLUSION, you end up essentially advocating for people to put a GARDEN HOSE down their throats and pour WATER in until they're DEAD. So maybe this WATER thing ISN'T SO WISE AFTER ALL.

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Listening to music during runs is... so OP. My run today was pretty sluggish relative to my usual numbers and I somehow couldn't push myself to go any faster, and then I finished the podcast (mike+dom on eth2 roadmap) and started listening to the right song and I pretty much immediately just sped up by like 15%.

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The skiff situation is a good reminder of why decentralized ecosystems are so valuable. Challenge question @dwr @v : how far along is Farcaster in this regard? If hypothetically your team got acquihired by Facebook (or Tencent, or...) tomorrow, how well would the ecosystem be able to keep going?

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